The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Sunday, April 04, 2010

More hate speech (a liberal's nightmare kind)


"White supremacist's killing blamed on hate speech




VENTERSDORP, South Africa – A South African white supremacist leader was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers .......Eugene Terreblanche's violent death on Saturday came amid growing racial tensions in the once white-led country and underscores an ongoing controversy over African National Congress Youth Leader Julius Malema's performance last month of an apartheid-era song that advocates killing white farmers. "

Hopefully the good people at Homeland Security are monitoring  hip-hop song lyrics in the US.. 

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Should TWW be worried?




He lives in a state where you cannot legally carry a sixgun for self-protection and he has gotten this threat:

"If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
And we be many, but you be few."  
This message/threat is from our peace-loving friends at Greenpeace (see:http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/2010/04/will_the_real_climategate_plea_1.html )

Watch carefully at 1:57 and thank the global warming people

Life and/or financial enrichment with hops

Two new hops rhizomes (whatever they are) came in the UPS delivery last night so today was planting day. Here is a hop rhizome thing from last year after being dug up to make room for the solar heating panels.
 Here it is transplanted on the east side of the Garbin.
 Here is one of the new ones.
This is the other new one.
Here are seven oak trees.  TWW found some growing acorns in a bag of potting soil in the garage. With all of this work accomplished time to go lay in the hammock.

Friday, April 02, 2010

Same day ; different year

April 2, 2010 


April 2. 2009




Thursday, April 01, 2010

Remember what day it is?

TWW wants to wish all of his loyal readers a Happy April Fool's Day.  

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The latheless but still warped woodturner

The repairman was out today to fix the lathe



He put in the drive belt but in the process discovered a bunch of other stuff that had worn out. Another delay in the quest for life enrichment.



One of the new parts is a power cord since you can see copper wire in the current one so lathe stays off.


Here he beats a hasty retreat.

Mrs. TWW is overjoyed.

Another conservative nutcase?

When our leader talked about bring a gun to the fight he must not have realized how he was going to impact people.

From Politico.com: "Federal authorities have arrested a Philadelphia man and charged him with threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his family. Norman Leboon will be charged with two federal counts: threatening to kill a member of Congress and interfering with his federal duties, and posting video online containing such threats.......Leboon does not appear to be particularly politically active, but he does appear to have donated to President Barack Obama."


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35152.html#ixzz0jgPXDrXT

Monday, March 29, 2010

time for Cheesehead Concealed Carry

Concealed-carry pitched as part of gun law reform

Police Chief Edward Flynn and District Attorney John Chisholm said allowing concealed-carry weapon permits must be coupled with other changes such as requiring background checks on all gun purchases in Wisconsin. Currently, only federally licensed gun stores have to do such checks in the state."

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Decimation coming to Garbin Moraine

TWW heard rumors of evil loggers clear-cutting some nearby land recently. Since the land was in the Managed Forest Law program and TWW has just put his land into the same MFL program, he wanted to see what his land would eventually look like. It ain't pretty.


The starting point is the SE corner of the neighbor's land. (Local people called it the 'Bohner'.)











Back to the starting point after getting lost for a while.

The good side of this is the land won't be decimated until 2035 which is impossible since the world will end in 2012.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Earth Hour shows the difference between people with conservative and liberal values







Today is the rotating blackout called Earth Hour. The people in the movement are supposed to turn out their nonessential lights for an hour. Unfortunately, for the planet the conservatives won't be turning out their nonessential lights. You see the cheapskate conservatives turn their lights off when they are not needed so the nonessential lights are already off in their houses. Today the people with liberal values are the only ones who get to feel holier than thou for an hour. This all makes TWW wonder if the bumper stickers seen in the American South in 1970s were more anti-liberal hate speech. The bumper stickers said "let the bastards freeze in the dark".

Is WWF (backers of Earth Hour) in back of a get rich scheme??

"If the world’s largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF – formerly the World Wildlife Fund – announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of Switzerland, many people might applaud, thinking this was just the kind of cause the WWF was set up to promote.....If it then emerged, however, that a hidden agenda of the scheme to preserve this chunk of the forest was to allow the WWF and its partners to share the selling of carbon credits worth $60 billion, to enable firms in the industrial world to carry on emitting CO2 just as before, more than a few eyebrows might be raised. "

more details at the London Telegraph (Al Gore must be jealous of this one)


Friday, March 26, 2010

More leadership in overcoming the partisan divide

With all the threats going around TWW thought you'd like to know how our LEADER is trying to overcome the partisan divide:

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.” (source Politico)

Our LEADER's carbon reduction programs are working

It is cold out this morning for a spring day.


Here is the future site of the Garbin Moraine Solar Generation site. It is on the very left side of the picture. You get a 30% tax credit on what you spend and better yet WI may be changing the law so if you sell back to the electric company you may get twice what they charge people for generating the electricity from coal. You can spend $50,000 for a 5KW solar set-up or you can spend $600 or $700 for a 5kw gasoline generator at Home Depot. Go figure. (note: a capital KW unit of electricity is more pure and wholesome than a small kw of unit electricity generated from a fossil fuel)


Thursday, March 25, 2010

More truth about the global warming controversy

Jesse the Body has done a TV show on the conspiracy behind the global warming movement.

Watch at your own risk (remember what Verne Gagne did to his fellow resident in the nursing home).


Proof liberals are more tolerant

A few liberals thought George Bush was a Nazi, but here is some proof they are much more tolerant than the conservatives. The Daily Mail in the UK says "Americans who suggest Barack Obama should rot in hell are apparently deadly serious. Nearly a quarter of Republicans believe the Democrat president 'may be the Antichrist', according to a survey. An even greater number compared him to Hitler." (Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260195/U-S-healthcare-reform-14-rebel-states-sue.html#ixzz0jBn3ZRYN also see the pic above).


Notice how one of our LEADER's advisor's (standing right of our LEADER) is pasting his Mark of the Beast sticker to his forehead.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Find the red squirrel

Life enrichment through warshing




More good news about the government running something

TWW did not get a census form yet so to be a good citizen by filling it out he looked on the Internet - the source of all truth -- to get a copy. He found a web site about how to get answers to census questions.



======from US Census web site=============


Questions You May Have

Have a question about the census form?

Getting the 2010 form

If you did not receive a form, call the Telephone Questionnaire Assistance center at 1-866-872-6868. (If you prefer a Spanish-speaking operator, then dial 1-866-928-2010.) The lines will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. (your local time) seven days a week from February 25, 2010 through July 30, 2010. For the hearing-impaired, TDD 1-866-783-2010 (during the times noted above).

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TWW called the number above and got to talk to a machine that sort of understand English (was the machine from another country or was it hired to meet an affirmative action goal??). Anyway, when TWW tried to tell the machine he needed a form, the machine said he had to give the machine a Census ID number found on the forms that had already been sent. Since TWW does not have any forms at all where he can find the Census ID number needed to order the form where he can find the Census ID Number on......he decided he just won't be counted this year. That is the beauty of living in the middle of no where. They cannot find you.




Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Quote for the Day -- Did he keep his promise??

snippet taken from Washington Post website:


Obama Says He Can Unite U.S. 'More Effectively' Than Clinton

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

MANCHESTER, N.H., Aug. 14 -- Drawing a sharp contrast with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama said in an interview that he has the capacity she may lack to unify the country and move it out of what he called "ideological gridlock."


Thought for the day

Our Leader has done something even Hillary Clinton (who may well win the 2012 election) could not do. He has given the people what they have said they always wanted: health care reform. Why are the people so dumb that he now has to waste his time going around the country selling the people on what they wanted in the first place when there so many things he could do for the people -- especially the people who are not citizens yet who can vote against Hillary.

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